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It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA).

The closest to a US one that I know of is midwest.social, which looks pretty lively from what I can tell.

Anyway, so lemmy.world is becoming quite populated with all kinds of US-specific stuff, like communities for sports teams, sometimes with generic names that could be used for other things ( [email protected] ), states/cities like [email protected] or even [email protected] (while [email protected] also exists), with other instances also having duplicate comms.

I'm expecting Lemmy to have, at some point, and hopefully soon, an option to block entire instances so that we don't have to see posts especially that are country-specific. But I'll need to block all the baseball teams one by one if I want to browse all and try to find new things.

And I'm sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.

So, please someone make one? Or navigate people to the right one? Thank yooou

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The US-defaultism that happens on the internet is very annoying

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's especially annoying when you live in a different English speaking country. I don't give a shit about your pounds in the chicken recipe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's right! Put dollars in the chicken recipe!

Anyway that's my two cents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Let’s say 2/100 of your country’s primary monetary unit. No reason to be US centric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And cups, and spoons…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, wtf is a cup of butter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So refreshing on a cold day…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pounds mass or pounds force? 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you plan on cooking in space?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Freedom! Pounds of Freedom!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I added 3 tbs lead but it tastes kinda funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US! Oppressing everything else in the world since...the beginning!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Damn americans, they ruined america!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I immediately became a bit upset when I read this post and realized US defaultism was going to happen on lemmy too now. Very annoying thing.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You guys are nuts if you let it bother you.

Literally makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don't have to share the view of others, but can you understand how claiming generic names like 'bears' and 'politics' for something regional is annoying? Bears and politics exist in other countries, too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

No, I don't care at all. If I want to speak to Romanians, I go on r/Romania, r/RoCasual, etc. etc.

We are only 20 million people. Americans are 330 million, and its an English speaking site. I don't expect to see Romanians catered to in any way what so ever in the generic subs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm just dumb and forget the world wide web is, well, world wide haha. I just live in my own little bubble sometimes but i'm trying to be better about not blindly assuming the folks i interact with on here and other places are from the US